Craig B. Waff
/in /by adminLongtime SABR member Craig B. Waff died at age 66 on June 12, 2012, in the absolute prime of his life. Just one week earlier, he had observed the rare transit of Venus from Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, California. An avid Yankees fan, Waff was keenly interested in the history of early American pre-1860 pre-Civil War base ball. At the time of his death, he had just completed writing and editing several contributions to the SABR book Inventing Baseball. Most significantly, however, through his dogged research through digital databases and newspapers on microfilm, Waff single-handedly quintupled the known number of base ball games played between 1845 and 1860 from around 300 to at least 1,500 (Waff’s Games Tabulations appear can now be found at protoball.org.)
SABR BioProject biographies written by Craig B. Waff
SABR Games Project stories written by Craig B. Waff
- September 2, 1880: Night baseball at Nantasket Beach
- September 18, 1862: The ‘Silver Ball’ Game
- September 1860: The Grand Excursion, part 2: Excelsiors of South Brooklyn
- August 23, 1860: No gentlemen’s game, Excelsior vs. Atlantic
- July 1860: The Grand Excursion of the South Brooklyn Excelsiors
- June 30, 1859: Caught on the fly: Knickerbockers vs. Excelsiors
SABR Journal Articles written by Craig B. Waff
SABR Research Topics written by Craig B. Waff
SABR Research Articles written by Craig B. Waff
SABR Ballparks written by Craig B. Waff